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Microscopic Records<\/h3>\n

The New Interdisciplinarity of Early Modern Studies, c. 1400\u20131800<\/h3>\n

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\"\"\"\"Microscopic Records: The New Interdisciplinarity of Early Modern Studies, c. 1400\u20131800<\/em> is made possible thanks to the generous support of the British Academy (grant number BARSEA19\\190084, PI Dr Stefan Han\u00df), and will take place at The University of Manchester on 29 September \u2013 1 October 2020.<\/p>\n

The ways people experienced the world relied on the ability of things and materiality to elicit emotions and behaviour. This recent interest of historians forms the basis to build new conversations that aim at revealing information embedded in the early modern microscopic record. Microscopic records are defined as the world of small-scale materiality: a material world which is hardly seen and often surprisingly active. This British Academy event explores microscopic records in<\/em> and from<\/em> the early modern period. Following these two lines of enquiries, this event will explore early modern notions, activities, and explorations in small-scale material worlds as well as information embedded in small-scale material records of early modern material culture.<\/p>\n

This event\u2019s goal is to question and broaden the kind of knowledge historians of early modern material culture may acquire about the past. Objects\u2019 microscopic records reshape our understanding of the role of things in past societies, wherefore archaeologists pioneered the use of technology and historians explored the value of remaking experiments in laboratories and beyond. By asking how such methods can advance our knowledge about the early modern past, this event establishes pathbreaking interdisciplinary cultures that make science a crucial element of a historian\u2019s toolbox. By testing the use of scientific methods for broadening our understanding of the early modern period and its material cultures, this British Academy Rising Star event will establish new interdisciplinary collaborations linking the humanities with the sciences.<\/p>\n

This British Academy event comprises several masterclasses and a symposium that will link Early Career Researchers with key leaders of the field (registration required, see CfP on this webpage). Invited participants and speakers are:<\/p>\n